Laysan Albatross: Long-Distance Flight

Laysan Albatross: Long-Distance Flight

James Addison

https://www.wired.com/2013/04/animal-superpowers/

Laysan Albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) A well-made, conscientiously maintained automobile lasts a few hundred thousand miles. To a Laysan albatross, that's a couple years' travel. Nesting in the mid-Pacific and feeding from the tip of South America all the way to Alaska, the birds can fly 50,000 miles in a single year. Wisdom, a Midway Atoll-dwelling albatross tagged in 1956 and considered the world's oldest bird, has flown between 2 and 3 million miles in her lifetime. Image: Duncan/Flickr